Friday, November 14, 2014

TGIF! Friday, November 14, 2014

azoth \ AZ-oth \ , noun;
  1. the universal remedy of Paracelsus. 
  2. mercury, regarded by alchemists as the assumed first principle of all metals. 
Origin: Azoth is derived from the Arabic word az zā'ūq which meant quicksilver or mercury.

007
  • The codename of legendary Secret Service Agent, James Bond
And please double ough seven, try not to destroy this one car.

History
  • Moby Dick: the famous Herman Melville novel was published (1851)
  • Nellie Bly: New York journalist began her around-the-world-in-72-days trip, beating the time of Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1889)
  • Coventry: central England city was largely reduced to rubble by Nazi air raids (1940)
  • Apollo 12: second successful manned mission to the moon was launched (1969)
  • Sedna: this trans-Neptunian object and very far-away dwarf planet candidate was discovered (2003)
Birthdays
  • William III (Britain) 1650
  • Robert Fulton 1765
  • Claude Monet 1840
  • Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
  • Aaron Copland 1900
  • Dick Powell 1904
  • Joseph McCarthy 1909
  • Rosemary DeCamp 1910
  • Barbara Hutton 1912
  • Martha Tilton 1915
  • Howard Duff 1917
  • Johnny Desmond 1920
  • Brian Keith 1921
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922
  • Phyllis Avery 1924
  • Kathleen Hughes 1928
  • McLean Stevenson 1929
  • Fred Haise 1933
  • Ellis Marsalis 1934
  • Don Stewart 1935
  • Carey Bell 1936
  • Freddie Garrity (Freddie & the Dreamers) 1940
  • P.J. O'Rourke 1947
  • Buckwheat Zydeco 1947
  • James Young (Styx) 1948
  • Prince Charles (England) 1948
  • Stephen Bishop 1951
  • Yanni 1954 - Musician
  • D.B. Sweeney 1961
  • Laura San Giacomo 1961
  • Run (Run D.M.C.) 1964
  • Patrick Warburton 1964
  • Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads) 1964
  • Jeannette Jurado (Expose) 1965
  • Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) 1969
  • Shyheim 1977
  • Olga Kurylenko 1979 
 

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